Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (616 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807094609 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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This book seems written less for the girl activist, and more for the adult supporters of activist girls R S Cobblestone Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists, by Lyn Mikel Brown, is a well-organized book. I'm interested in developing a training program for young adults to become activists, so the subject of Brown's book was of interest. First, I appreciate and recognize the focus in this book on girls, but I note that many of the activist development issues also apply to boys. Second, my book now has numerous Post-it tags. There are many, many thoughtful tidbits throughout. I will have all my students read chapter 1, "The myth of the special girl." I also like chapter 3, which details 6 reasons why "we should be e. great book for educators and mentors who work with teen girls Amazon Customer I loved reading Powered by Girl! It is a great book for educators and mentors who work with teen girls. Lyn Mikel Brown challenges readers to think critically about societies reactions to social movements that claim to empower girls. She takes on both gender and generational myths that threaten to impede girls from their place in activism as a coming-of-age right. Having worked with teenage girls in formal classrooms, summer camps, and in different countries, I wish I had read this book long ago. This book gets to the heart of what it means to empower girls and question our actions and assumptions. Powered by Girl does . Nice grounded advice and balance sanoe.net I was impressed by Lyn Mike Brown's "Powered by Girl". The author covers a lot of ground on engaging young girls in their activism from the girls understanding themselves to the world around them but also for those who are mentoring to understand as well. The author does a good job of reiterating and reinforcing but also inspiring. It isn't so long that it can overstay its welcome but it isn't so short that it comes off as trite feel-good babble. It has a nice grounded and thoughtful balance to it.
Read it right here, right now!”—Niobe Way, author of Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendship and the Crisis of Connection“In this bold, inspiring book, Lyn Mikel Brown investigates the realities and possibilities of intergenerational activism—and does not shrink from the challenges. Behind the scenes, Brown shows us how real girls and women can truly kick some ass by working together on jointly constructed actions for social justice. An essential read for those who want to create a more just and humane world and want girls and women to lead the way. Full of stories and strategies, it’s a must-read manual for nurturing agency, sisterhood, and critical consciousness in girl activists. Taft, author of Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas“Behind every ‘exceptional’ girl isa movement! Kudos to Lyn Mikel Brown for identifying the architecture that lifts up
And we learn what experienced adult activists say about how to scaffold girls’ social-change work. Brown argues that adults shouldn’t encourage girls to “lean in.” Rather, girls should be supported in creating their own movements—disrupting the narrative, developing their own ideas—on their own terms.. A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movementsDrawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want to support their organizing. Here we learn about the intergenerational support behind thirteen-year-old Julia Bluhm when she got Seventeen to go Photoshop free; nineteen-year-old Celeste Montaño, who pressed Google to diversify their Doodles; and sixteen-year-old Yas Necati, who campaigns for
Lyn Mikel Brown has been studying and working with girls for more than twenty-five years. . A professor of education and human development at Colby College, she is the author of five previous books about gender and girlhood, and is the cofounder of three grassroots organizations